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  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  . So, I thought I'd post a few up here. To spare you the trouble of ... 't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to MIT? 2. What does a day in the life of a physicist look like? 3. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  our “daily walk” around the track, followed by a vigorous round of ... pretty psyched to see just how cool the PE offerings at MIT are! A small ... classes were spent quickly going over how to use each of the machines and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  offer a statistic for those of you obsessing over the "chance me" threads ... 'd offer a bit of unsolicited advice (but puh-leeze, you know you want it ... THAT issue out of the way, let's address the college essay. If you want

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  , with work from the minds of Gaudi and Dali offering up an escape from the ... of MIT's pistol class [annotation note="unfortunately I was on the ... name off the top of my head"][/annotation] Hi again blog, I write to you

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  feel so good in the midst of finals, in the midst of a pandemic, in the midst of everything which is horrible in the world, and it is odd that the ... day of my second vaccine shot, I walk across the parking lot to the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  . Unfortunately, the only ones of you who might’ve believed that my post ended there ... the third quarter of my sophomore year of high school working on MIT ... times a month and probably will for the rest of my life, for better or for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  numbers are, of course, mere approximations. Depending on the professor and ... example, in the case of the required Course 16 Unified Engineering series ... Parenthood. Content-wise, my work is close to the opposite of the general MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…

  

  an infinitesimal fraction of what it has to offer these past four years. To the Class of 2012 -- four years is an incredibly short time, and ... 've done a comprehensive study of Beijing's performance in the Olympics and

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  coaster of editing, getting feedback, and editing some more. In the midst of ... and Literature University of Northern Iowa January 2006 The Statement of Purpose required by grad schools is probably the hardest thing you

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  professors."]UROP[/annotation] with the MIT Kavli Institute of Astrophysics and Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at ... and sends pictures of the sky for signs of exoplanets. [caption id

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  "This is the first day of my life I'm glad I didn't die before I met ... college acceptance as the light at the end of a dark tunnel, and clutched ... being totally worth it. All the shadows of high school were dispersed by

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  /character oriented, which I agree with, but why do so many of the kids at certain ... -based. That is, we consider each applicant on their own, within the context of ... families have different resources. The primary job of the application reader

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  use of a dishwasher is the last frontier in an immigrant household, an indication of complete Americanization. The dishwasher is a rare kitchen appliance in most countries outside of the US and apparently many immigrants

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  on the topic of extra-curricular activities. We collectively lamented ... (and reward) the latter when we read, and that one of my favorite admits ... in order of priority). (We'll pause here to clarify for the record that

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MITES, RSI and WTP deadlines approaching Summer programs at MIT for 11th graders.

  

  The three high school summer programs hosted by MIT -- MITES, RSI ... subsidized and offers financial aid. Here's a little more about them: Minority ... , engineering, and entrepreneurship. The Research Science Institute (RSI

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  3-108, which was part of the [annotation note="Now that we're no ... passageway between buildings 3 and 10."]complex of rooms along the Infinite ... ="Overlooking...Chipotle."]new office,[/annotation] on the second floor of a new building, E38, which is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  News for Admitted Students Some next steps for those who received the good news.

  

  globe will be hosting gathering for the Class of 2014, as nearby campus as ... 're enrolling this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2015!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  all the previously mentioned Awesome Stuff that it offered. And I loved what I saw - not just the content of the blogs, but also the fairly ... , appealed to the journalist side of me). And that's why I'm really, really

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  -year-old brother, and I am the happy owner of a shiny new Sony Vaio! My new Vaio is ... clueless about the actual workings of my shiny new Vaio; I know enough about ... Monkeyluv last week, and I am currently in the middle of a book I've been

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  . They buy blocks of tickets for events in the Boston area and offer them ... nice to find another place to study. My favorite option was the room of an upperclassmen down the hall who liked to study in one of the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009